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  1. How is SQL involved? on SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article said "SQL" in the headline, but never mentioned it again after that.

  2. Blacked-out? on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    They really just marked all the important parts for us with one of those colourful marker pens. And black is their idea of colouful.

  3. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    3. ????? (do a barrel roll, steep climb/dive/banking or parabolic arcs)

    Wohoo! I wish my flights included some of those.

    5. Profit.

    ...and this.

  4. asdf on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know that I would have to change the region code on my wireless amongst other things

    What you say? I have never heard about it. Is that ordinary wireless LAN you are talking about or UMTS or something?

    I plan on hitting the British Museum

    Uh, I'll notify the police.

  5. Re:Hooray for standardized hardware on Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development · · Score: 1

    Actually the U series cpus are BGA. IE they would've needed to hot-air solder them down. Ever since atom and the whole 'lowest wattage possible' the day of the socket is swiftly approaching an end :(

    Does a socket require more power?

  6. Re:Math cannot exist before wind. on Tracking the World's Great Unsolved Math Mysteries · · Score: 1

    Mathematical tools, however, are invented and not discovered.

    Indeed. Pen and paper come to mind.

  7. Re:The Practice of Programming on Interview With Brian Kernighan of AWK/AMPL Fame · · Score: 2, Informative

    kids - read Shannon thouroughly as well, starting with "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"

    Interesting, for sure, but what does it have to do with programming?

    Link, by the way: A Mathematical Theory of Communication

  8. What kind of rays? on Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    just one cosmic ray could disable unlucky satellites

    What is the nature of these "rays"? Duration, frequency, intensity and width would be of interest.

  9. Pfss, that's nothing on The World's First Four-Screen Laptop · · Score: 1

    My laptop has 1 280 * 768 little screens.

    And a few monochrome ones for power indication and such.

  10. Re:Poor ELF people on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 1

    No, his antenna is too small.

    I think you meant to write "this antenna", not "his antenna". In fact, I know you did. Be more careful next time, so that your posts don't seem to allude to things they weren't intended to.

  11. Headless network servers on Running Old Desktops Headless? · · Score: 1

    network servers designed to run headless

    So, how would one access one of these?

  12. Poor ELF people on ELF Knocks Down AM Towers To Save Earth, Intercoms · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can't you hear how they are crying out "No, his antenna is too small. It will never carry low enough frequencies. Die, you small antenna!"?

  13. Your nifty app on How To Survive a Patent Challenge? · · Score: 1

    Are you able to tell us what your application does? I'm afraid I still can't solve you problem, I just ask out of personal interest, since it's apparently nifty and all. :-) Mabye it's even something I would like to buy from you!

  14. Re:But it's not Windows! on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, at this point there are probably about a thousand times as many people whining about this supposed attitude on the part of Mac users than there are Mac users actually displaying it.

    But that's perfectly in order, isn't it? There have been many more people complaining that Hitler was a bad guy than there has been Hitlers.

    (*knock, knock*
    - Who's there?
    - Godwin.)

  15. Make summaries more informative on The Story of a Simple and Dangerous OS X Kernel Bug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The mechanics are so simple that can be easily explained to anybody possessing some minimal knowledge about how operating systems works.

    So then do so in the summary!

  16. So, the important question on Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket · · Score: 1

    Can I use this ALICE to build an inexpensive rocket myself?

  17. Expiration date on How To Stop Businesses Storing SSNs Indefinitely? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your SSN has expired, please choose a new one.
    Old SSN: __________________
    New SSN: __________________
    Retype new SSN (tip: copy from above): __________________

  18. Slooooow news day, huh? on Google CEO Schmidt Leaves Apple Board · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So he resigned. Seems like a reasonable thing to do. Why don't we just leave it at that? It doesn't even have to do with technology! You know, cool machines and stuff. Rockets, computers, mathematics - that's what we want to learn about here.

  19. Re:WTF? on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    "OMG did u c wat ashleys waring 2day???"
    "OMG I no wat a hore!"
    "LOL!!!"

    That should earn them a low grade in spelling, but on the other hand a high grade in computing science for implementing a data compression scheme.

  20. Great summary on Null Character Hack Allows SSL Spoofing · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The summary really explained what it's all about, rather than sound like a newspaper who want's you to read more. This is great! Too few summaries are like this. Editors, you should make sure every story get such a good presentation on Slashdot.

  21. Re:Stunts ( 4D Sports Driving) on From Doom To Dunia — the History of 3D Engines · · Score: 1

    What about Stunts?

    Not on the list because it was 4D, rather than 3D.

  22. Re:Profits, but for whom? on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    Thanks for your answer. It satisfies a lot of my immediate curiosity.

    I've got over 100 books on the subject of market trading, and have done quite a bit of research to compile my methods.

    Ouch, I have a lot of reading to do! And so much of what I read about technical analysis seem to be taken out of thin air, containing very few well-founded claims. Maybe 100 books is what it takes to accumulate enough of the scattered pieces of insight. :-/

    Also, please please please DO NOT use money you can't afford to lose.

    Best financial advice ever. This principle is dear to me. I'm happy to see you hold it high too.

    I wish you continued success. Again, thanks.

  23. Re:Profits, but for whom? on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    I want to congratulate you. It's nice to see that an individual can do well in this game, although you seem to be one who has more financial muscles than most (which you perhaps made by doing well in the first place). :-)

    I keep biting my tongue so as not to ask you what those algorithms are about, as I realise you might want to keep them to yourself, but it would be very interesting to hear anything you would feel comfortable with saying about them. Such as what level of sofistication we are talking about. Do the algorithms involve the history of the particular future that is to be traded, or the current price of another future, or all other futures weighted together, or the phase of the moon? Ah, there's so much I want to learn.

    Someday, I hope to do something like what you are doing. What does an account like yours cost (in your particular country)? Does it require a lot of capital or frequent trades?

    I'm thankful for any answer you might find time to provide.

  24. Re:Speed is important on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    One of the things explained in the article is because the computers are so fast they can issue and cancel an order before it gets fulfilled.

    Interesting. How come an order isn't carried out as soon as a match is found? How much time passes between a match being found and the order being executed? Does it ever happen that the high frequency trader gets his order fulfilled because something took to long so that the order wasn't canceled in time?

  25. Re:Great future on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    The Indian government apparently currently is incentivizing power plant construction by guaranteeing an X% rate of return every year for Y years plus recoupment of complete investment costs. X is significantly higher than the investment plans available to the hoi polloi because the investor has to be willing to front the initial multimillion dollar investment of building the plant.

    That's horrible! We must organise ourselves... I mean, that's great! We should pool our money and make the investment. Wouldn't that be a good idea? My searches doesn't turn up very useful resources for reading about this incentive. Do you have a link?

    There are tons of other opportunities like this out there that wealthy families take advantage of on a regular basis.

    It would be really interesting to hear about more of these if you can spare a few minutes.